u/luckyrunner

I've played D3 on and off for years, but am definitely not a very advanced player.

I have ~2200 paragon in non-seasonal and ~1300 this season. My highest solo GRs are 140 (a few seasons ago) and 120 (non-seasonal) with the same GoD Demon Hunter. My current seasonal WW Barbarian can do a 125 pretty comfortably and I'll probably be able to squeeze out a 130, but likely not much higher.

After all these years, I'd just love to have some 150 gems/augments, especially on my favourite characters (currently, my highest gems are 140 and my highest augments are 125). Generally, I'd love to be able to run 150 GRs solo, especially in non-seasonal and with no fishing.

Is there any build at all that I could expect to somewhat comfortably farm GR 150s with, while having ~3000 non-seasonal paragon? Or seasonal, if I don't expect to ever get above ~1500 paragon in a season?

Based on the leaderboards, I see that more people have done a GR150 solo with a Necromancer than with pretty much all the other characters combined. Is that the way to go?

Or is this all just too big of an ask and I should build a zbarb and join groups of better players?

I'm in the midgame of my first Vintage Story playthrough and am trying to both plan out my base and understand how all the different "firing" buildings work. This is my understanding of them so far, but please add/correct anything you can think of and I will edit the post. In rough order of progression:

Charcoal Pit

From as small as 1x2 to as big as 11x11 (interior dimensions), this lets you turn firewood into charcoal. It can be made of any non-combustible material (e.g., dirt, stone, brick, etc.) and the materials will never take any damage. You can add a kiln door or iron trap door to a permanent pit for aesthetics or ease of access, but opening them during firing will reset the timer (and later updates may see this causing or cause the wood to start burning to ash). Permanent pits can also be made using slab and stair blocks.

Beehive Kiln

An alternative to having many pit kilns that no longer requires grass or sticks (using only firewood, peat, or coal). Has a set layout that needs to be followed exactly, requiring fire clay bricks or refractory bricks, a kiln door, and three iron hatch doors (not trap doors). Can produce many colours of clays and ceramics by combining clay colour (red, blue, fire) with opening 0-3 doors during firing.

Important: the bricks used to make the beehive kiln take damage over time, so I thought it would be important to wait to build one using refractory bricks, ideally of the highest tier (clay bricks have a 50% chance to break while Tier 3 bricks have a 0.1% chance). DO NOT WAIT. Build one immediately. The damage calculation apparently only occurs every 168 hours -- aka every 15 firings. Given that a beehive kiln has 27 interior spaces, you could make an absolutely absurd amount of stuff before ever having to worry about damage.

Cementation Furnace

Used for making steel, this one also has a set layout that needs to be followed exactly. It must be made using an iron door, a stone coffin, and refractory bricks (not clay bricks). However, to get Tier 3 refractory bricks, you need steel pulverizer pounder caps (for crushing Ilmenite), meaning that you already need to have made and used a cementation furnace out of Tier 1 or 2 bricks. The tiers have a 10%, 5%, and 0.1% chance to break, respectively.

Important: unlike a beehive kiln, the damage calculation happens at every firing.

Coke Oven

Use for making coke, which is needed to smelt nickel (most likely alloying it with copper into cupronickel for late-game devices). Has a set 3x3 layout with only a 1x1 space inside. You will need a coke oven door and either fire clay bricks or refractory bricks. However, bricks do not take any damage ever, so it probably makes sense to use the cheapest ones.

Summary

• Make a charcoal pit/room/area just about however you want
• Make a beehive kiln ASAP out of fire clay bricks -- do not wait for refractory bricks
• Make a cementation furnace out of Tier 1 or Tier 2 bricks first, then make steel pounder caps and make a new one out of Tier 3 bricks using crushed Ilmenite
• Make a coke oven out of fire clay bricks

Apologies if I've made any mistakes. Please comment any additional tips, info, or corrections below and I will edit my post to address anything important!

I've heard that iron veins are always huge and, true to form, the very first one I found was the biggest thing I've ever seen and gave me hundreds of chunks.

However, I just found a second iron vein and this one was very sparse and only gave a total of 26 chunks, a lot of which I really had to randomly poke around for (i.e., it was not in a neat "disk" like the first one). I've prospected every part and am getting "no ore nearby" everywhere.

So can hematite spawn in small amounts like this or am I missing a motherlode somewhere nearby?

I've had this Facebook account for over 20 years. It's my personal account and the only one I've ever used.

About 30 minutes ago, out of nowhere, I got an email saying my account was suspended and I had 180 days to do something about it. 20 minutes later, I got an email saying my review was unsuccessful and my account has been permanently disabled. Another 5 minutes later, I got a text saying Facebook thinks my account was hacked and I should log in, but it's still not letting me.

I have no idea what to do or who to contact. Any help would be appreciated!

I just got Vintage Story and it's such a cool game! I've been playing for about 7 hours and just finally got my first copper tools!

I haven't played Minecraft before so the game controls and crafting system are very new to me. But I have played many survival-crafting games like Valheim, Enshrouded, Ark, Raft, Forest, and Icarus, so at least there's that.

My main question is how to get more food? I'm playing on a standard world and haven't changed any settings other than making seasons a bit longer.

I've found maybe 20 or so mushrooms, but they barely restore much food. I've found about a dozen berry bushes, but many are taking ages to ripen and berries also give little food. I've got a few turnips and onions. I've gotten just a few pieces of meat as I haven't been hunting much. I've planted every single seed I've found and every berry bush cutting I made, but nothing has matured yet.

At this point, my gameplay loop is just going on a short resource-gathering adventure, coming home just in time to starve to death, respawning, and repeating. I just have no idea how to get enough food to outpace the food drain in the game. I've probably starved and respawned 20-30 times over the course of my playthrough.

I'm sure I'm just missing something as a new player, so any advice would be appreciated. Do I need to hunt more? Forage more? Just play faster so that the little food I do have goes further?

I've fully played through The Island, Scorched Earth, and Aberration -- they were all amazing and each one brought something new to the table.

I've only just started out on The Center, Extinction, and Astraeos (and I haven't yet touched Lost Colony, Valuero, or Ragnarok). Extinction and Astraeos both seem absolutely amazing. But I'm finding The Center a bit too similar to The Island.

Anyhow, I'm wondering -- how would you rank all the ASA maps you've played? What have you liked or disliked about the ones you've tried?

I've seen numerous posts, videos, and comments about this, and there does not seem to be a consensus.

Obviously, the Reaper Queen's level and your level are both very important. If anyone is curious, the formula is:

• Embryo = Queen + (Player - 150) * 0.6 * (Queen / 150).

So if you are level 165 and find a level 150 queen, you should get: 150 + (165 - 150) * 0.6 * (150 / 150) = 159. Plus the 75 bonus levels from earning XP should bring you to 234.

However, has anyone actually definitively tested whether the reaper mom's actual stats are transferred to the baby, or if the baby's stats are randomly rolled irrespective of mom's stats?

A few [potentially related] examples from the game:

• I haven't tested if Wyverns and Rock Drakes inherit their parents' stats, but I can say for sure that multiple eggs from the same Wyvern or Rock Drake will hatch into babies with identical stats to each other, suggesting that the stats are not randomized
• Rhyniognatha babies inherit a mix of stats from both the mom and the sacrificial dino, so the stats are not randomized

However, this still is not actual proof one way or the other and just adds to the speculation. Has anyone actually done any real testing or or obtained irrefutable evidence of how it works?

I have recently started experimenting a bit with the War Bench and Tinkering Bench and was surprised by one key difference:

• Tinkering Bench allows you to combine any blueprints into a [potentially] better blueprint
• War Bench only allows you to combine multiples of the exact same item into a [potentially] better version of that item

I had been hoarding a bunch of random high-tier but useless gear (e.g, hide and chitin armour, saddles for creatures I never use, etc.). But I guess those should all be thrown in the grinder?

However, there's also the Helicoprion, who can turn items into blueprints. So if you have high-tier useless items, you can do that and then sacrifice those blueprints at the Tinkering Bench. On this note: I have done multiple dinowipes on both the Island and the Center and have not seen a single Helicoprion. Are they just insanely rare?

But all in all, it looks like there's no way at all to get a high-tier version of an item without already having multiples of that item? For example, I've only found a couple pieces of ascendant hazard gear (and no blueprints for it at all) on Aberration and would love to have at least one complete set.

I'm playing through the story maps of ASA on single player and am wondering what the best way to farm hide is on Aberration? All my resource-gathering settings are default / 1.0.

On the Island, I farmed hide with an Ovis farm and a Therizino (the "C" attack only gathers hide, so you can kill dozens of sheep at once and not get overburned with mutton). Best strategy I've ever found by far. I got carried away and now have an entire dedicated storage full of hide (360K) and then a bit more in another.

On Scorched Earth, I honestly didn't end up needing much hide, as I was able to find plenty of premade Fasolosuchus saddles and managed to take down even the alpha Manticore with only 8 or 10 of them. If I hadn't found the saddles, I would have used an ascendant chainsaw (again, I was able to find a whole bunch of these). Or if not, I would have used my Thyla.

On Aberration, I again started with an Ovis farm (no shortage of those here!). I then used the following to harvest at least a few Ovis each: Araneo, Yi-Ling, Gigantoraptor, Dire Bear, Basilisk, Baryonyx, Spino, Karkinos, Megalosaur, Rock Drake, and Ravager. For some reason, my Rock Drake couldn't harvest the dead Ovis at all. And despite the Wiki saying that Karkinos are especially good hide gatherers, I found them to be below average. Surprisingly, I got the most from my Ravager. Of course, a chainsaw (primitive -- I've never gotten a better one on Ab) gathered a lot more per Ovis, but it was very slow, lost durability quickly, and is decently expensive to repair. So the best strategy for me is Ravagers.

But I only have about 40K of the 250K that I need for my Megalosaur army saddles, so I'm wondering if anyone has found any better strategies? Needless to say, I want to do this without bringing items or creatures from other maps (or the hide itself for that matter).

I've been playing through all of ASA on single-player. My approach has always been to start every single map fresh, always taming brand new dinos and not transferring anything over. I've beaten the Island (Theris + Yuti + Daeodons) and Scorched Earth (Fasolos) on alpha, and am now nearing the boss fight on Aberration.

As far as I've seen online, there's always been two main strategies for Rockwell:

1. Have a bunch of Megalosaurs munch on him while you ride around on a Rock Drake shooting his tentacles (with an optional Reaper following you);
2. Run around on foot with cactus broth and shoot both the tentacles and him yourself.

However, apparently, you can now no longer shoot from the back of Rock Drakes (unless you change your game mode to PVE), and Rockwell spawns a lot more exploding balls (especially if you don't use cactus broth).

Now, I would prefer to go the dino army route, not the solo shotgun route, as this feels more "true to Ark" for me, but I'm ultimately OK with either option. However, I do want to avoid using cactus broth because, whether you get it from that semi-secret loot drop in the Glowtail cave or transfer it over directly from Scorched Earth, it never felt like that was an "intended" mechanic. And lastly, since I usually play with PVP settings, changing my settings to PVE for a single fight (in order to be able to fire from the back of a Rock Drake) also feels kind of cheat-y and I would prefer to not do this.

So my question is this: Is it possible to solo alpha Rockwell without cactus broth on single-player PVP (aka, I cannot shoot from the back of a Rock Drake); and if so, how would you do it?

Are rock drakes supposed to drop unfertilized eggs, like all other dinos? I have 5 rock drakes (1 male, 4 female) sitting on a platform with an oviraptor next to them (on wandering, so each drake has the flashing egg symbol above them).

It's been many, many hours and I have not gotten a single unfertilized egg from any of them. If I enable mating, I can get plenty of fertilized ones. But, I'd prefer to use the unfertilized ones for kibble as it's much more convenient.

Every single other dino I've used for kibble (both on Aberration and on other maps) has never had this issue.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there any way to fix it?

For all other crafting materials, when I have the necessary ingredients in the inventory of my tek replicator, it prioritizes those over ones in dedicated storage, as expected. However, I just noticed that when I put organic polymer into my replicator, it still prioritizes pulling hard polymer from storage over using the organic polymer inside its inventory.

If I disable wireless crafting on the hard polymer storage, it starts using the organic polymer just fine. So it's clearly just a matter of prioritization.

I'm not sure if this has always been the case and I've simply never noticed, or if it's something that only just started happening.

Could anyone please test this on their end to see if you're also experiencing it? Or does anyone know if there's a fix (other than disabling wireless crafting on the hard polymer dedicated storage)?

This started a few days ago and I'm at a complete loss for what to do. My phone usually shows "5G" and anytime I open a web page or check the internet speed, it seems to be working well. However, almost anytime I try to make a call, it just drops without ringing. And many people have reported that they can't get through to me either.

• WiFi was off for most of my testing, but turning it on doesn't seem to change anything
• I've tried restarting the phone numerous times
• I've also restarted the wireless settings specifically
• I'm at home, in the same location I've had this same phone and provider for the last almost two years